War Haiku.

grey sky

World War II - Hiroshima

Midtown river,
hundreds of bodies floating
Hirosahima, years ago.

Joachim Seckel
USA

hiroshima day . . .
the acid smile
of clouds

Robert D. Wilson
USA

Remains of a morning

his reading glasses
dusty but without a scratch
scholar's monument

the weight of Hiroshima

what her hands carried
the weight of the world
in one small package
shadows on a wall
cast by empty black ruins
all that remain
too hot for miso! he pushes it aside that August morning

Catbird55
USA

Beneath the sun
in a bare forest
the bald child

Toni Piccini
Italy

dark August clouds---
looking up Hiroshima
on the map
Hiroshima Day---
the reason why
we must keep talking
Hiroshima Day---
a Japanese ballerina
dances on pointe

Fred Masarani
USA

where do I
put the accent—
Hiroshima

Bill Kenney
USA

little girl, carrying
her burned brother
toward nowhere.
near the epicenter,
a surviving student
touches charred limbs.

Joachim Seckel
USA

August 6--
my father does not say
good morning

Earl Keener
USA

overnight sprouts black
scabby burned hives of hatred
hiroshima mushrooms

-- thomas fortenberry

Hiroshima
the shadow of a tree
in the old wall

Martin Cohen

a bowl partly filled with breakfast's miso soup all that remains -8:16 am

Catbird55

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